Black artists in comics, Alphonse Mucha-inspired pop-up tattoo salons, and an ode to Essex Hemphill are some of the upcoming exhibitions opening in D.C. this spring.

Jon Batiste will be the inaugural reciptient for the Ray Charles Award at the Grammy Museum in Los Angles this May.

Jon Batiste will receive the inaugural Ray Charles “Architect of Sound” Award at the annual Grammy Hall of Fame Gala, which is set for May 16 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. The ...

Michael Ray Charles is a contemporary American painter ... I’m trying to deal with present and past stereotypes in the context of today’s society,” the artist has said. Born in Lafayette, LA in 1967, ...

and received a fellowship to Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, where he eventually became head of the Design Department. Charles and Ray got married in 1941, and moved to California, where they ...